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There was thunder and lightning last night.
昨夜雷雨と稲妻があった。
The storm-clouds brooded over the valley.
雷雲が谷一面にたれこめていた。
Thunder rolled with menacing crashes.
雷が今にも落ちそうな激しい音でごろごろと鳴った。
The performance was received with applause.
その公演は万雷の拍手を受けた。
The day was rainy, and what was worse, thundering.
その日は雨が降っており、さらに悪いことには、雷も鳴っていた。
We took cover from the thunder shower.
我々は雷雨から避難した。
He drove over a land mine and his jeep blew up.
彼は地雷の上を運転して、彼のジープは爆裂した。
The fireworks show was suspended after 30 minutes due to the thunderstorm.
花火大会は雷雨のため開始30分で中止になった。
There was a sharp peal of thunder.
激しい雷鳴がした。
The weather report said that there will be thunderstorms tomorrow evening.
天気予報は明日の晩は雷雨になると言っていた。
Communications have been cut off for two hours because of a thunderstorm.
2時間ほど前から雷雨のため連絡が断たれている。
It is because light travels faster than sound that we see lightning before we hear thunder.
雷鳴が聞こえるよりも先に稲光が見えるのは、光が音よりも早く伝わるからである。
It's also scary when the lightning strikes across the sky, but what's really scary is the sound. Once, my house was struck by lightning and since then I've become even more scared.
ピカッと光るのも怖いのですが、どうしても音が怖いで、一度家に落雷してからさらに苦手になりました。
The flash of lightning precedes the sound of thunder.
稲光は雷の音に先行する。
First it thundered, and then it started to rain.
雷が鳴ると、雨が降り始めた。
We had a lot of thunder that summer.
あの夏は雷が多かった。
She is frightened of thunder.
彼女は雷をこわがる。
They say the gods smite evil with thunderbolts.
諸神は悪を雷で打つという。
Lightning struck Tom's house.
トムの家に雷が落ちた。
Trains were disrupted due to a thunderstorm.
雷雨のため列車のダイヤが乱れた。
Thunder has been explained scientifically, and people no longer believe it is a sign that the gods are angry with them, so thunder, too, is a little less frightening.